BJP demands Anderson escape order from Congress

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded an explanation from the Congress as to who was responsible for the escape of Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson from India following the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in December 1984.

"The Congress owes an explanation to the nation and victims of Bhopal Gas Tragedy as to who instructed that Anderson be allowed to leave the country," senior BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters on the sidelines of BJP's two-day national executive in Patna.

He demanded that Congress should reveal the individual's name who had ordered the release of Anderson from police custody in Bhopal on December 7, 1984 and later his transportation to New Delhi by the state plane.

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